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EAC to help Ethiopian children get education
EAC to help Ethiopian children get education
Educate A Child (EAC), founded in 2012 by HH Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, has signed a grant agreement with imagine1day, an Ethiopian organisation to enrol more children into schools. |
EAC, a global programme based in Qatar, aims to trigger significant breakthroughs in providing quality primary education to 57mn children who currently have no access to schooling.
The programme promotes and facilitates access to primary education in regions suffering from conditions such as poverty, conflict, discrimination or natural disaster.
The partnership is focused on enrolling over 28,000 children in primary schools in two districts in Ethiopia’s southern Bale Zone - Dello Mena and Meda Welabu. Through the partnership, imagine1day will increase access to early childhood and primary education through the construction of 11 new primary schools.
The organisation will also supply teaching materials and training to improve the teaching-learning process, broaden the curriculum, encourage extra-curricular school activities, and enhance the level of students’ life skills. Parent-teacher associations and principals will be trained to support the enrolment of children and their continued school attendance.
Sapna Dayal, imagine1day executive director, said: “We are thrilled to join an esteemed group of EAC partners, applying ingenuity and determination to significantly reduce the number of children who are out of school around the world. This partnership will enable imagine1day to tackle some of the most challenging issues Ethiopia is currently facing in equitably providing access to quality primary education.”
The official added that through a focused strategy and a commitment to building the leadership and technical capacity of key stakeholders, the organisation will create systemic and lasting results in 103 pastoralist communities in Ethiopia’s Bale Zone.
Educate A Child’s director Dr Mary Joy Pigozzi said imagine1day’s approach to working through the national, regional and district education structures is well aligned with EAC’s operating principles.
“We look forward to supporting an organisation with a strong record of reaching out of school children and keeping them in school, so that together we can bring quality primary school education to thousands of Ethiopia’s children in the coming years.”